"Valve recently revealed that they are working on a special HDR showcase for Half Life 2 titled Lost Coast. Whilst Far Cry only implemented HDR via Shader Model 3.0, hence only working on Nvidia's latest-generation cards, Lost Coast will implement it via Shader Model 2.0, allowing for it to work on ATI's current generation."

I really like this portion of the article.
"The interesting thing to note is that Lost Coast will perform rendering on X800-range cards, showing that you don't need Shader Model 3.0 to perform HDR operations, and meaning that Valve certainly aren't waiting for ATI's R520 to launch, as had been speculated previously."

I remember reading many, many posts for people saying, "If you have a X800 ATI card you won't even be able to play HL2 HDR Lost Coast... Blah, Blah, Blah...."

and meaning that Valve certainly aren't waiting for ATI's R520 to launch, as had been speculated previously."

That's what beedub was saying for the longest time........however, they say it's not true, but I sure as hell don't see lost coast coming out any time freakin soon, so no doubt that the damn card WILL be out before they release it whether they claim they were waiting for it or not......sounds like BS to me.......